Yeah, the guy that used to be in the Big Bird suit for years was invited to print the earth in a space shuttle to get kids interested in space. I think they ended up deciding that the suit was too big for the shuttle and he didn't go, so they had a teacher go instead.

So I guess he had to live the rest of his life thinking about how he would have died, but also that she did instead. Heavy stuff.

There's a documentary about him that's kind of cool.

P.S. I'm assuming you even know what big bird is, but if not, he's basically guy in a big ass Bird suit on a kids tv show.

ClavAnother wrote:Yeah, the guy that used to be in the Big Bird suit for years was invited to print the earth in a space shuttle to get kids interested in space. I think they ended up deciding that the suit was too big for the shuttle and he didn't go, so they had a teacher go instead.

So I guess he had to live the rest of his life thinking about how he would have died, but also that she did instead. Heavy stuff.

There's a documentary about him that's kind of cool.

P.S. I'm assuming you even know what big bird is, but if not, he's basically guy in a big ass Bird suit on a kids tv show.

I didn't know that story... gives me a terrible image of the guy with his big bird suit on being found in the wreckage mangled from the 200g impact!

Sesame Street wasn't a thing here when I was growing up, everyone seems to know what it is though... might have come over at some point or when satelite tv took off in the early 90s, we didn't really have the infrastructure for cable. Probably everyone who does the internet knows now anyway.

"To be honest with you, I just assumed it was another symptom of Taren Capel being as mad as a bicycle."

I can just rememer Camerberwick Green from when I was very young... the opening always had the main character of the week come out of a music box... it's iconic enough to a particular generation they spoofed it in Life on Mars:

I don't remember any nonces getting kicked in on the original.

"To be honest with you, I just assumed it was another symptom of Taren Capel being as mad as a bicycle."

I suspect that huge round driver wasn't a real human. I believe he was an inflatable auto-pilot filled with hydrogen. Which is almost as dangerous as a big ol' trucker's belly filled with road burritos.